Hi friends, I'm sending this for what should be obvious reasons after you read it. Simply said, I've done quite a lot with Perl and am ardent -- with Unixy systems, of course. Why do you need more than the base implementations for clever, nicely built systems? Rhetorical. I came from C (still the cats meow) and we can all imagine without getting into SV, PV -- they're pointers to structures with unions -- not onions -- the same. I only get here once in a while. Its great to see so much fervor for Perl, but its really quite more simple than you all ask for. Woops, maybe that'll make it so much unlike Java where all is a mystery. Believe me friends, if you know C and write your Perl as the same, you'll find the real power therein. I don't hinge my professional or creative life on obfuscation, quite the contrary. I wish you agree. Its so simple to make complex things work. Thanks, Michael morourke@theworld.com P.S. -- is Java clumbsy? Rhetorically.

# haha
until(1) {
}
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# reminds me of macros where
# do
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# while(0)
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# be good, better than good, be great

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